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Pitchy

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Home made electric motor
« on: October 27, 2019, 11:59:16 am »
Always wanted to put together a electric motor, armature is from a drill magnets are earth magnets.
Running on a 12 volt bat. charger.




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Re: Home made electric motor
« Reply #1 on: October 27, 2019, 12:13:27 pm »
Sounds like it's spinning at a pretty good speed!  8)
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Re: Home made electric motor
« Reply #2 on: October 27, 2019, 12:43:18 pm »
Have no idea how fast it`s going, it does have pretty good power.
I want a vintage motor that would on less volts but hard to find that i can afford.

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Re: Home made electric motor
« Reply #3 on: November 03, 2019, 03:27:24 pm »
Took us a while to get the bugs out of this new motor but in the end we won.

Persistence pards, took us four days of aggravation to get it running, made a new three pole armature.
Running on a six volt lantern batt.



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Re: Home made electric motor
« Reply #4 on: November 03, 2019, 03:48:40 pm »
Nice work Lenn. Two good running Motors. I know where I am coming after the Apocalypse!

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Re: Home made electric motor
« Reply #5 on: November 03, 2019, 04:10:47 pm »
Thanks Charlie.  :)

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Re: Home made electric motor
« Reply #6 on: November 03, 2019, 07:50:20 pm »
The scratchbuilt one is terrific Lenn
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Re: Home made electric motor
« Reply #7 on: November 04, 2019, 05:46:35 am »
Thanks Jim, it has issues yet, the commentator bars heat up for some reason.
I built it from a picture of a original on the web, i`m not very electrical smart so it`s a challenge.
Going to tinker with it some today. 

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Re: Home made electric motor
« Reply #8 on: November 04, 2019, 10:08:33 am »

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Re: Home made electric motor
« Reply #9 on: November 04, 2019, 10:53:34 am »
Finished motor.




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Re: Home made electric motor
« Reply #10 on: November 07, 2019, 11:00:41 am »
Love that homebuilt motor, well done !!!

Fun stuff playing with these things, have you seen this (useless but fun) simple motor?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voHz6sxwQ2Q
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Re: Home made electric motor
« Reply #11 on: November 07, 2019, 12:37:57 pm »
Thanks Jan, yep made one of those once.  :)